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Wind farms multiply, fueling clashes with nearby residents

Sun, 24 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Tiffany Hsu - Jul. 24 (News Report) - Demand for clean energy has led to a wind turbine building boom. But many living in their shadow decry the electricity generating projects as pesky eyesores.

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Maryland Passes Legislation That May Boost Offshore Wind Energy

Fri, 11 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Bloomberg - By Andrew Herndon - Feb. 11 (News) - Maryland lawmakers are considering a bill that would require utilities in the state to purchase electricity generated at offshore wind farms built in the mid- Atlantic. The Maryland Offshore Wind Act of 2011, to be introduced before the state’s general assembly today, would require public utilities to purchase between 400 megawatts and 600 megawatts of capacity from wind farms in federal waters off Maryland’s coastline for at least 20 years, according to an e-mailed statement from Governor Martin O’Malley’s office.

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Obama fast-tracks Mid-Atlantic offshore wind energy

Mon, 07 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

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U.S. presses China on clean tech

Sat, 16 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Don Lee, Tiffany Hsu - Oct. 16 (News Report) - Washington looks into allegations Beijing is illegally subsidizing green industries. The Obama administration, facing increasing political pressure to address complaints about China's economic policies, said Friday that it was investigating whether China was illegally subsidizing its clean-tech industry — even as officials put off a difficult decision on whether to cite Beijing as a currency manipulator.

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Offshore Wind Power Line Wins Praise and Backing

Tue, 12 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Matthew L. Wald - Oct. 12 (News) - Google and a New York financial firm have each agreed to invest heavily in a proposed $5 billion transmission backbone for future offshore wind farms along the Atlantic Seaboard that could ultimately transform the region’s electrical map.

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Google Invests In Wind Power Line

Tue, 12 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

NPR - By JJ Sutherland - Oct. 12 (News) - The search giant wants to build a cable hundreds of miles long, 15-20 miles off shore, that would carry power from off-shore wind farms. The cable would stretch from Virginia to New Jersey.

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Ancient Italian Town Now Has Wind at Its Back

Tue, 28 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Elisabeth Rosenthal - Sep. 28 (News) - Faced with sky-high electricity rates, small communities across Italy, a country known more for garbage than environmental citizenship, are finding economic salvation in making renewable energy.

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China's renewable energy edge

Wed, 22 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

CNN - By Steve Hargreaves - Sep. 22 (News) - China has already surpassed the United States in the amount of wind turbines and solar panels that it makes. China is also gaining on the United States when it comes to how much of their energy comes from renewable energy sources.

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Councils to sell electricity to the national grid in green initiative

Fri, 06 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

The Independent - By Nigel Morris - Aug. 06 (News) - Town halls could become mini power stations under plans to allow councils to sell "green electricity" to the national grid.

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Uncle Sam, Solar Landlord, Is Under Fire

Thu, 17 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Todd Woddy - Jun. 17 (News) - Solar farms typically require vast swaths of land, meaning the lease fees can be considerable depending on a project’s location and local property values. The Bureau of Land Management’s solar rents range from $15.70 an acre in Hidalgo County, N.M., to $313.88 an acre in Riverside County, Calif.

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Community debates $3b Cape Wind deal

Thu, 17 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Boston Globe - By John Dyer - Jun. 17 (News) - Opponents and advocates debated the first contract to buy power from Cape Wind at a public hearing in Bridgewater last night. It was the first opportunity for energy executives, concerned citizens, and environmental advocates to voice their support or opposition to a $3 billion agreement seen as vital to the success of the controversial wind farm proposed for Nantucket Sound.

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Europe's New Wind Power Rivals Gas

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By James Kanter - Jun. 14 (News) - The amount of power generated by new wind turbines in the European Union this year will be about the same as the amount from new gas plants, according to the European Wind Energy Association, an industry group.

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More Wind Farms Mean Cheaper Energy

Tue, 25 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Scientific American - By Susan Kraemer - May. 25 (News Report) - Just as we Americans are finally really and truly internalizing the real cost of sticking with fossil fuels, due to the Gulf sea floor gusher, a timely NREL study finds wind power makes electricity that’s not just cleaner, but it’s also much cheaper.

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System Stores Wind and Solar Power in the Form of Natural Gas, to Fit Neatly Into Existing Infrastructure

Tue, 25 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Popular Science - By Clay Dillow - May. 25 (News Report) - By turning excess wind and solar power into synthetic methane through a novel process of water electrolysis and hydrogen methanization, we can store green energy for later use in existing natural gas infrastructure. It's abundantly clear that we need to get off fossil fuels for various reasons (try Googling "oil spill"), but our infrastructures are far better tuned for the hydrocarbon fuels of the past century than the renewables of the next. So why don't we just make fuels that work in our existing technology from renewable energy? A German-Austrian research collaboration has engineered a means to turn electricity from wind a solar resources into carbon-neutral natural gas that can be stored and deployed within existing natural gas infrastructure.

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A Battery That Stores Wind Juice

Thu, 20 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Matthew L. Wald - May. 20 (News Report) - Mountaintop wind turbines produce most of their energy at night, when electricity demand and prices are low. That limits revenue and makes it hard for utility companies to meet state goals for high percentages of renewable energy.

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Clean Energy's Dirty Little Secret

Sat, 01 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Atlantic Monthly - By Lisa Margonelli - May. 01 (News) - neodymium, the pixie dust of green tech—necessary for the lightweight permanent magnets that make Prius motors zoom and for the generators that give wind turbines their electrical buzz. In fact, if we are going to make even a few million of the hybrid and electric cars that are supposed to help rescue the planet from global warming, we will need to double production of neodymium in short order. But in 2006, nearly all of the world’s roughly 137,000-ton supply of rare-earth oxides came from China. And over the past few years, China has cut exports to nurture its own permanent-magnet industry, sending the price of neodymium oxide to a high of $60 a kilo in 2007. This worries analysts like Irving Mintzer, a senior adviser to the Potomac Energy Fund who sees shortages stifling clean-tech industry, and worse. “If we don’t think this through, we could be trading a troubling dependence on Middle Eastern oil for a troubling dependence on Chinese neodymium.”

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How Texas Lassoed the Wind

Fri, 09 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Scientific American - By Peter Behr - Apr. 09 (Special Report) - At the end of 2009, the capacity of Texas wind turbines, reaching to the horizons of farm and prairie land, totaled 9,410 megawatts, well more than the combined total of the next three largest wind-power states, Iowa, California and Washington. Over the course of a year, wind power is providing 5 percent of Texas' demand, and that would more than double if the state's grid goals are achieved.

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Chain of Offshore Wind Turbines Could Power Atlantic Seaboard

Mon, 05 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Wired - By Janelle Weaver - Apr. 05 (News Report) - A 1,550-mile-long network of offshore wind stations could provide power from Massachusetts to North Carolina with minimal threat of outages, according to a new study.

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Energy development for Indians: Harvesting the air

Wed, 31 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Economist - Mar. 31 (News Report) - Tribes in the Dakotas and Montana alone have enough wind to generate more than 886m megawatt hours a year. Even if only one per cent were developed, this would bring in $3.6 billion over 20 years, according to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). Now a growing number of tribes on the plains hope that wind will bring prosperity, at last. They are not alone. Indian nations across the country are exploring renewable energy, from solar to geothermal. A new bill would speed development. But tribes may have to wait a while yet.

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China steams ahead on clean energy

Fri, 26 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

BBC News - Mar. 26 (News) - China overtook the US during 2009 as the leading investor in clean energy, researchers say - with the UK in third place.

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Bottled Wind Could Be as Constant as Coal

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Wired - By Alexis Madrigal - Mar. 09 (News Report) - Wind power has made incredible inroads into the U.S. energy system thanks to big, efficient machines standing hundreds of feet tall. But the future of wind power may be underground.

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10 Companies Reinventing Our Energy Infrastructure

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Wired - By Alexis Madrigal - Mar. 02 (News Report) - When most people think about changing the way America uses energy, they imagine new ways of generating electricity like solar farms or new nuclear reactors. But at an innovation summit organized by the Department of Energy’s high-risk, high-reward research branch, ARPA-E (modeled after Darpa), it’s not just power generation that’s getting a makeover. The companies hawking their ideas there, which all received grant money from ARPA-E or were finalists, are trying to reinvent the entire energy system. Everything is getting a technological re-evaluation from the actual wires that power is transmitted on to the waste heat produced in industrial processes. And of course there are also new ways of making electricity beyond just burning some rocks or oil to create steam to drive a turbine. Here are 10 companies that caught our attention. Any one technology is unlikely to solve the looming climate change and peak oil problems, but working together within the larger system, they could tilt the globe away from catastrophe and towards a sustainable future.

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America’s Wind Energy Potential Triples in New Estimate

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Wired - By Alexis Madrigal - Feb. 19 (News Report) - The amount of wind power that theoretically could be generated in the United States tripled in the newest assessment of the nation’s wind resources. Current wind technology deployed in non-environmentally protected areas could generate 37,000,000

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Wind energy job growth isn't blowing anyone away

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Los Angeles Times - By Jim Tankersley - Feb. 02 (News Report) - Wind energy job growth isn't blowing anyone away

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Protection of Desert Land Faces Off With New Energy Sources

Tue, 22 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Todd Woody - Dec. 22 (News Report) - Senator Dianne Feinstein introduced legislation to protect a million acres of the Mojave Desert in California by scuttling planned solar plants and wind farms.

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